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Angelo Matera is publisher/editor of GodSpy.com. He has worked as a magazine and marketing executive and consultant for more than 25 years at companies such as Forbes and Time Inc. He is co-founder…[View entire profile]

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RE: Scholar sees a Catholic in the Bard
It's too bad, but I don't think more interpretations by literary experts about the hidden Catholic meaning in Shakeespeare's work is going to sway the experts, who are hopelessly biased. It's going to take objective proof that Shakespeare was Catholic: the discovery of his diary, or something like that.

RE: Letting Bill Clinton Off Easy
I think that clearly there's a lot of agreement within pro-life circles on how to communicate the message, and there's no question that one reason that public opinion on abortion has been slowly shifting to the pro-life side (and the number of abortions has been coming down) is the compassionate outreach to women in trouble through the hundreds…

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."

Opinion > Politics

As I listened to John McCain’s victory speech Tuesday night, spelling out the themes of his general election campaign—no apologies for the Iraq war, fight the “global war on terror” like it’s World War IV, keep taxes low, and global markets free—in other words, stay the course, the harsh reality of having to choose between him… READ MORE >

Opinion > Faith

What are we to make of the negative Catholic headlines last week from the Pew study of religious affiliation? “Catholicism has experienced the greatest net losses as a result of affiliation changes” … “Approximately one-third of the survey respondents who say they were raised Catholic no longer describe themselves as Catholic” …… READ MORE >

Opinion > Spirituality

Pascal said “the sole cause of man’s unhappiness” is that he doesn’t know “how to stay quietly in his room.” That suggests something you can do for Lent—nothing. It’s not too late. If you’ve forgotten how, “All Nothing, All the Time,” a travel article in today’s New York Times, can help. “Aggressive… READ MORE >

Opinion > Science/Tech

Annie Murphy Paul’s “The First Ache,” which appeared in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, is the perfect companion piece to Austen Ivereigh’s “A Question of Empathy.” Both articles show how science is changing the terms of the abortion debate by “personifying” the unborn. In Paul’s fascinating article, she zeros in… READ MORE >

Opinion > Faith

After a lengthy hiatus, today—Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent— we resume publishing GodSpy in a new daily blog/magazine format. It’s never been our style at GodSpy to do much public navel-gazing about what we’re doing. We prefer to let individual writers have their say, and focus on what’s happening in… READ MORE >

Opinion > Issues

The sad irony of the recent protests at Rome’s La Sapienza University that kept Pope Benedict XVI from speaking there was that they were based entirely on a mistake. Not only was the source of the protests—a 1990 quote about Galileo lifted from a speech given by then Cardinal Ratzinger—taken out-of-context, the statement… READ MORE >

Opinion > Issues

Two years ago for GodSpy I interviewed press critic Michael Massing about his Columbia Journalism Review essay that criticized the New York Times for ignoring public concern about the harmful effects of pop culture on children. In an interesting twist, Massing in the New York Review of Books this week cites a GodSpy interview in an essay he’s… READ MORE >

Opinion > Culture

Since Norman Mailer’s death two weeks ago there’s been an outpouring of eulogies about the “passing of the sixties generation.” As a Catholic, I’ve always been attracted to Mailer because he perfectly embodied the contradictions of that era. Part drunken orgy, part moral crusade, the sixties at times was like a distorted, bizarro… READ MORE >